Ordination Exams - Day 3

I'm getting my sea legs under me again and feeling considerably less grumpy than I was at the end of Day 1. The first day of ords we took an exam on theology and another on worship and sacraments (three hours each). I will admit that my otherwise pleasant disposition had gone the way of the dinosaurs by evening. It wasn't that the questions on the exam were unfair or even unexpected, it's just a very exhausting experience to have your feet put to the fire for six solid hours.

Day 2 was much less taxing - three hours of polity. After we completed the polity exam we were given the assigned pericope for the exegetical exam. This year's selection...

John 11:17-44

I was as tickled as a girl can be about taking an exegetical ord! I had been hoping that the gods of the ordination exams would assign the resurrection of Lazarus, and they did! It's easily one of my favorite pericopes from any of the gospels. So even if I flunk the exam, I will have loved writing the paper.

So now I'm busy examining Greek grammatical constructs, imagery and literary forms. For the next five days it will be Lazarus and me, me and Lazarus. We'll be tight and inseparable even though King James keeps insisting that "he stinketh."

Let the games begin!